Getting black screens, GA-X58A-UD3R with HX3X12G1600C9 and i7-960

arunasd

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Hello,

I builded my rig back in 2011, and it was working fine for most of the time. One day I started getting random black screens. Then they became more often. I though it was a problem with video card so I replaced it. Worked fine with new card for a while and then same problem occurred. Got to the point where the screen wouldn't even turn on. Had to hard restart it about 10 times until finally the screen would come up, but then it would go black after a little while again.
Anyway, my guess after intensive search for the solution online is that there is a problem with my Bios settings, or one of hardware components is bad. Last time I was able to boot my system memory was running on 1079Mhz, instead of 1600Mhz.

Also, screen would just go black (monitor would loose the signal) and sometimes fans on my Graphics Card would start working full speed as going into black screen.

Here are my specs:

Corsair HX3X12G1600C9 XMS3 12GB 1600Mhz DDR3
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard REV 1.0
Intel i7 960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz 1366 130W Quad Core
EVGA GeForce GTX570
Corsair Air Series A70 Performance CPU Cooler CAFA70
Corsair CMPSU-650TX 650-Watt TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply
Dual OS, Mac OS x on SSD and Windows 7 on HDD.

Bios version F6, the latest non beta version.

Anyone could advice me regarding correct Bios setting to optimize performance of this system and to run memory at 1600Mhz?

I am attaching screenshots from my Bios settings. I am not able to boot my OS with these settings.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1dk63d9c620z3e/20131018_034856.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxgeyy3500q2lzv/20131018_034910.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d33owwju2xd0tbf/20131018_034926.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o1599hxfgslhjhh/20131018_034942.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qihmw6auwurhbiu/20131018_035000.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/njleyjduugot3zw/20131018_035038.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zenoryg14dii4h6/20131018_035226.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9wo2fba5ifj36r/20131018_035246.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2repderkcr4z83/20131018_035301.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rcitb3n5gv2wrjr/20131018_035336.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tqkjx9h1zj20c9/20131018_035350.jpg

When I finally was able to boot into Windows, here is what setting the system automatically applied:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ur1a0fm30zypmj4/20131018_050941.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ln6xrbl978ilk2/20131018_050953.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5495tm05g422cb/20131018_051005.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7ixrctjne4wgu4/20131018_051028.jpg

At this current moment I am not able to boot into OS.

Any help would be much appreciated! as I am desperate at this point, and I am not that savvy to figure it out myself...
 

arunasd

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Now I can't even get into Bios. When I power it on it sounds like it is working but there is no signal to the monitor. Other times when I power it on fans on my GPU go full speed and there is no signal neither.

I tried taking RAM out and just leaving 1 stick in, that didn't change anything.

What could it be? PSU? GPU? Mobo?